Professional qualifications

Education

1974: BA (Cantab)
1979: MA (Cantab)

Practice profile

Winston Poon’s practice comprises litigation and advisory work in company law and insolvency law. He has been instructed in relation
to numerous matters involving applications under Companies Ordinance, shareholders’ and boardroom disputes, corporate mergers,
acquisitions and other forms of restructuring.

He has acted for numerous Hang Seng Index constituent companies and state owned corporations in the PRC and the Hong Kong
Government (such as the worldwide collapse of Bank of Credit and Commerce and the merger of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and
Futures Exchange), regulatory bodies such as the Securities and Futures Commission, the Official Receiver, many blue chips companies in
Asia as well as multinational corporations such as Cable and Wireless plc in the United Kingdom and Telstra Corporation Limited in Australia.